Overtkill Deluxe Boxed Figure Ad from 2001
Last week I shared an ad for Spawn series 20 action figures. The ad was incomplete showing only five of...
Month: January 2016
“Villainous character nets $50,000 prize” in 1986
It took a few decades, but eventually Fearless Photog* became a real toy. Mike Pellegrini writes in this 1986 newspaper...
“Win a Mechanical Man” in 1969
The Zeroids toys from Ideal (see Wikipedia) are one of those obscure lines that we never hear much about. Despite...
1988 Mini Car Wars Advertisement
This 1988 Car Wars game (find at Amazon.com*) advertisement comes from the time when I was probably most into the...
1996 Star Wars CCG Flyer from Parker Brothers
Decipher's Star Wars CCG from the nineties (find at Amazon.com*) was big business for four or five years. The game...
Spotted Online – Micronauts Trade Catalog at Plaid Stallions
My love of consumer toy catalogs is well documented (see Each Sold Separately* and Action Figures Not Included*), but it's...
“Kiddy craze centers on robot toys”
I posted this 1984 Associated Press newspaper article last summer (posted here), but when I ran across it in a...
